Bigme is implementing a new firmware update for most of its current devices. They have successfully updated the Good e-Reader, Bigme Galy, and Bigme InkNote Color+ with Kaleido 3 colour e-paper. The company has updated the user interface for the first time in four years, and it looks like Onyx Boox now; everything is more precise, concise, and bubbly. There needs to be more redundancy with the number of choices, and it is less of a technical and more of a user-friendly experience.
If you are new to e-notes and the Bigme brand as a whole, there is now a help file that addresses all of the functionality, and you can search in this file for specific use cases. They said they have increased the battery efficiency by 30%, but measuring something like that is hard. They have added some ChatGPT functionality into the note-taking section and revised some of the note-taking options.
Finally, the refresh issues are one of the best things about the update. There have always been refresh issues with Gallery 3 colour e-paper displays, and Bigme has been trying hard to address these issues. You should now see less ghosting, and the resolution has been improved, providing better image quality.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.